Avi Loeb

Yeah, the jetting.

That made news.

That made news.

So I said, what could push it?

And in fact, the force was declining inversely with distance squared from the sun.

So that is exactly what you expect from a thin object pushed by sunlight.

and i said well maybe it is a thin object pushed by sunlight that is manufactured technologically and as soon as i said that well first of all the reviewer of the paper that i wrote with one of my postdocs the reviewer said this is an excellent idea because we know the object is flat and

uh it shows this uh unusual acceleration so maybe that's true so the paper was accepted for publication within three days three days peer-reviewed peer-reviewed and published astronomical astronomical the astrophysical journal yeah and then the the media got a hold of the story and within a day i had a television crew at the front door um

And I said, sorry, I have to go to the airport.

I'm attending a conference in Germany.

And they said, oh, we just have one question.

Are we alone?

Oh, boy.

So I went to Germany and there was a whole conference, Falling Walls, which is quite prestigious after the falling of the Berlin Walls.

And it was in Berlin.

And as soon as I arrived, everyone around, as we had dinner and all the other speakers said, oh, you are Avi Loeb that everyone is speaking about.

And then...

there was a group of several dozens of reporters that wanted to speak with me at the same time.

So the organizers put them in one room

And I ended to that conference room and an Italian reporter shouted from the back, do you think that you are Galileo?